UNIONS must take a new blueprint for Scottish employment rights into workplaces to engage with stewards and members, a packed Scottish TUC fringe meeting heard yesterday.

Union leaders including Unite Scotland political officer Jackson Cullinane and Unison’s Peter Hunter gathered to launch the Charter for Employment Rights for Scotland, a new consultation document produced by the Institute of Employment Rights.

Charter co-author Chris McCorkindale, a law lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, said Scotland’s devolved institutions should change their approach to tackling issues where powers are reserved to Westminster.